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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a rare but very serious [[complication]] of [[circumcision]].
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a rare but very serious [[complication]] of [[circumcision]].


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Adult candidates for surgery are required to have a work-up to determine their suitability for surgery, however infant boys do not receive the same consideration. The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] long has stated that [[circumcision]] should only be performed when the infant boy is "stable and healthy", but nothing is done to verify the suitability of the infant to withstand [[pain| painful]], [[trauma| traumatic]] surgery. Infant boys are not even given a blood-clotting test prior to the cutting, so there are cases in which the bleeding disorder is discovered only on the operating table.
Adult candidates for surgery are required to have a work-up to determine their suitability for surgery, however infant boys do not receive the same consideration. The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] long has stated that [[circumcision]] should only be performed when the infant boy is "stable and healthy",<ref>{{REFjournal
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|title=Report of the Task Force on Circumcision
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}}</ref> but nothing is done to verify the suitability of the infant to withstand [[pain| painful]], [[trauma| traumatic]] surgery. Infant boys are not even given a blood-clotting test prior to the cutting, so there are cases in which the bleeding disorder is discovered only on the operating table.


Baby Matthew was not a candidate for surgery, however he had it anyway.
Baby Matthew was not a candidate for surgery, however he had it anyway.
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<i>Circumcision of male children was adopted into medical practice in the late 19th century. It is essentially the practice of [[periah]] that was adopted by the Jewish rabbis in the second century AD. There is nothing modern or contemporary in the practice.</i>
<i>Circumcision of male children was adopted into medical practice in the late 19th century. It is essentially the practice of [[periah]] that was adopted by the Jewish rabbis in the second century AD. There is nothing modern or contemporary in the practice.</i>


<i>Baby boys are not born with a diseased penis, so there is no disease to treat. Circumcision of infant boys is non-therapeutic and medically-unnecessary.</i>
<i>Baby boys are not born with a diseased penis, so there is no disease to treat. Circumcision of infant boys is non-therapeutic and medically-unnecessary.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Committee on Fetus and Newborn.
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|year=1971
|title=Standards and Recommendation for Hospital Care of Newborn infants
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1971
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|location=Evanston, Illinois
|publisher=American Academy of Pediatrics
|ISBN=
|accessdate=2025-06-22
}}</ref></i>


<i>Medical doctors in the [[United States]] are paid on a fee-for-service basis, so the more services the doctor performs, the greater is the [[Financial incentive| fee]] that he earns.</i>
<i>Medical doctors in the [[United States]] are paid on a fee-for-service basis, so the more services the doctor performs, the greater is the [[Financial incentive| fee]] that he earns.</i>


<i>Introduction of modern precautions such as ultrasound or EKG testing have not been introduced because that would destroy the profit that drives the practice of circumcision in America, so the American practice remains much as the ancient rabbis dictated with the same degree of [[pain]] and [[trauma]].</i>
<i>Introduction of modern precautions, such as ultrasound or EKG testing, have not been introduced because that would destroy the profit that drives the practice of circumcision in America, so the American practice remains much as the ancient rabbis dictated with the same degree of [[pain]], [[trauma]] and loss of function.</i>
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